TENON, Jacques. Mémoires sur les hôpitaux de Paris. 1788.

Paris, De l’imprimerie de Ph. D. Serres, 1788.

4to (249x194 mm), (8)-lxxiv-472 pages, 15 folding plates and 2 folding tables.  binding : Contemporary full mottle calf. Spine gilt in six compartments, title in gilt on lettering-pieces, red edges, marbled endpapers. Lower cover a little rubbed. Stain on margin of the table page lxiii. 

references: Garrison-Morton [1600 ], Norman [2061 : "Tenon's 'Mémoires', publicized the dreadful conditions in Paris hospitals and oulined various urgently needed reforms, many of which quickly followed"].

Price : 3000 €